After months of looking and the help of a staffing agency, I have a job working as the administrative assistant to the director of operations at a pathology lab. Today starts my third week here (my first as an official employee and not a temp), and I really like it. It is a little nerve wracking sometimes, because I'm still very new at this and don't always know what I'm doing or how to do it, but my boss is really great. Her boss can be a bit of a jerk, but I think he's warming up to me. I love having my own desk. I know where everything is, it's all organized the way I want it to be, and I even have pictures of me and AJ on it.
The lab is very busy, and it can get a little overwhelming at times. But then there are days like today, where my boss is traveling and I have no projects of my own to work on, so I'm really only here to take messages for her and distribute the mail. So I guess those days even out the crazy ones. The first two weeks were a lot of back and forth days of "I really love this job! This is going to be great!" and "Oh my God I don't think I can handle this. Maybe this is too much for my first job. Maybe I should start in a less intense office setting." But, I'm trying really hard to just remind myself that I was this nervous when I started working at the Y and didn't know what I was doing too. I also try to keep reminding myself that when she hired me, my boss said that she really wanted to hire someone to start out as her assistant and then eventually train them to be the associate director of operations, and then maybe even take over for her. So this is not just a job. This could be a career and a future.
So, I'll just keep taking deep breaths, and see what the future has in store for me here!
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